By: EFE Updated 16 May 2022, 21: 38 pm EDT
Rafael Nadal returned to training after his elimination last week in Masters 1. from Rome, in the match against the Canadian Denis Shapovalov, who could not complete in good condition due to the chronic injury he suffers in his left foot.
The Spanish player finished that round of 16 match with an obvious limp, physically diminished due to the degenerative ailment he suffers, Muller-Weiss syndrome, which raised fears for his presence in future commitments, especially at Roland Garros .
However, Nadal returned to training on Monday. The winner of twenty-one Grand Slams, who has spent a few days off in Manacor (Mallorca), showed an image on Instagram exercising on the track at his academy and confirmed that he will travel to Paris on Wednesday to continue his set-up before the start of the second Grand Slam of the season.
“Today in Manacor, at the Rafa Nadal Academy… See you on Wednesday, Paris Roland Garros”, said the Spanish tennis player.
Nadal has won twenty-three matches this 2022 and has only lost three matches. In the current course he has won the titles of the Australian Open, Acapulco and Melbourne. He faces from Sunday 21 the conquest of his fourteenth Roland Garros title.
The Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal revealed, after his defeat in the round of 16 in Rome against the Canadian Denis Shapovalov (1-6, 7 -5 and 6-2), that if he does not take “any” anti-inflammatory he would go “lame”, in addition to pointing out that he is not injured, but is a “player who he lives with an injury”.
The chronic injury that Nadal suffers in his left foot, known as Müller-Weiss Syndrome, has left him out of one of his favorite tournaments, that of Rome . The Balearic returned to play at the level he had before the injury to his ribs, which has kept him off the courts for almost two months, and he defeated his rival in the first set with a resounding 6-1, but the foot prevented him from keeping up.
“It is difficult to understand my day to day, no I intend to play the victim. I have what I have, tomorrow I’m going to wake up terrible because I’m not going to take anything, I live with lots of anti-inflammatories because if not, I can’t train”, he assured in a conference press release.
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